The Ebor Festival gets underway on Wednesday and once again Sky Bet are leading the way with another first race special. Simply place a bet on the 1.55 Symphony Group Stakes at York race course and if it loses, Sky Bet will refund us as a free bet up to a maximum of £25.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a guaranteed minimum profit of £15.31 and here’s how…
Qualifying Bet:
If you’re unsure about how to place qualifying bets, check out my Qualifying Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how they should be done.
For this particular offer, we need to select a horse that has a decent chance of losing so that we receive the free bet refund. It therefore makes sense to place our qualifying bet on a horse with long odds. At the time of writing, the lay odds are pretty poor, so I’ll use fictional odds in the workings below and update the bottom of this post with my actual selection after the race.
Place £25.00 on Desert Law @ 10.00 = Potential profit of £225.00
Lay £22.77 on Desert Law @ 11.00 = Potential liability of £227.69
Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
Desert Law wins | +£225.00 – £227.69 = £2.69 loss |
Desert Law doesn’t win | -£25.00 + £22.31 + £20.00 (extract 80% from our £25.00 free bet) = £17.31 profit |
So as things stand we will make £17.31 profit if Desert Law doesn’t win and a loss of £2.69 if he does win. It’s not often that we are able to do this but by placing a further back bet on Desert Law, we can guarantee ourselves a profit on any outcome…
Let’s have a look at our overall profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
Desert Law wins | -£2.69 + £18.00 = £15.31 profit |
Desert Law doesn’t win | £17.31 – £2.00 = £15.31 profit |
So regardless of the result of the Symphony Group Stakes, we will make a guaranteed profit of £15.31 on this York Ebor offer!
If you’re unsure how to extract 80% of our £25.00 free bet, check out my Free Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.
* I actually placed my qualifying bet on Robot Boy at back odds of 15.00 and lay odds of 17.50. I made £14.69 profit on this offer. *
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